The 2nd World Small-Scale Fisheries (2WSFC) Congress will be held in Merida, Mexico, 21-25 September 2014. The congress’ main theme is “Options and Opportunities for Small- Scale Fisheries,” with the following sub-themes: economic viability; livelihoods and wellbeing; ecosystem stewardship; rights and access; governance and governability; food security; assessment and monitoring. The congress is an opportunity for anyone interested [...]
WHO WE ARE
Officially launched in September 2012, this six-year long Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) project is an open network that encourages anyone interested in SSF, including fishers, fisher organizations, practitioners, managers, policy makers, donors, students and researchers to participate in an interactive discussion about SSF. TBTI is a research network knowledge mobilization partnership established to elevate [...]
WG4 Special Issue Call receives 22 abstracts as contributions
The call for papers to be published in the Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal that was organized by WG4 (Enhancing the stewardship) received 22 contributions. These abstracts were contributed from Brazilian, Latin American, Caribbean, European, Canadian and US researchers. The proposals covered all three dimensions of WG4 (impacts, monitoring, and stewardship). The published [...]
SocMon Brazil encouraged by TBTI WG4 workshop
The team led by Rodrigo Medeiros and Cristiana Seixas started activities to establish SocMon Brazil immediately after attending the “SocMon Brazil Workshop”, which was held in the Center for Marine Studies (CEM) from August 1st to August 2nd, 2013. SocMon is a globally recognized socio-economic assessment methodology for monitoring coastal and marine social-ecological systems. The [...]
A proud sponsor of the GCFI Fishers Forum
Too Big To Ignore (TBTI) played a major role in the Fishers Forum of the 66th Annual Meeting of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) held in Corpus Christi, Texas, from 4-8 November 2013. GCFI is TBTI collaborator, and the theme of the 2013 Fishers Forum was “Collaborative science towards sustainable fisheries” which fit [...]
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